# ChemPilot\.ai

[ChemPilot\.ai on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/chempilotai)

Startup · 3 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://chempilot.ai/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/chempilotai)

## About

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## YC company profile

Discover novel defense related materials/molecules.

ChemPilot accelerates the discovery and development of next generation defense materials using AI and data from our automated wet lab. Developing a new material today takes 10+ years of trial and error. We compress that to months by screening for what can actually be made, then closing the loop: every lab result feeds back into the models so the next round is faster and smarter.

Sam, Ofir and Maor spent two years researching these materials at the Technion lab of our CSO, Prof. Alon Grinberg Dana (former MIT postdoc), working directly with defense primes and government R&D agencies. Together we bring chemical engineering, computational chemistry and AI, plus the production systems to put them to work. ChemPilot spun out of that research.

The West’s defense and dual-use industrial base runs on materials with fragile, sole-source and often adversarial supply chains. Demand for new capability is surging, and materials still take decades to develop. We’re building a new kind of chemical prime: one that can discover, develop and ultimately manufacture the materials the West needs, securely, fast and at cost.

- **YC batch:** Fall 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 3
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** Industrials
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** Robotics, Workflow Automation, Aerospace, Advanced Materials, Defense
- **YC partner:** Aaron Epstein

## Founders

### Sam Cogan — Founder/CEO

Founder at ChemPilot.ai. MSc in Biochemical Engineering from Technion. Love competing, both in business and in any sport.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-cogan-16435916b/)

### Maor Goldman — Founder

Founder at ChemPilot.ai | Ethical Hacker | BS Computer Engineering from Technion | Served in 8200

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maor-goldman-03b43a119/)

### Ofir Simhi — Founder/CTO

Founder and CTO at ChemPilot.ai. Previously a full-stack developer, one of the first developers in an acquired startup (Skiff, acquired by Notion), and a main developer in another acquired startup (StoreMaven, acquired by Zynga). 
BSc. in Biochemical Engineering.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-simhi-b8098a196/)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/chempilotai) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Maor Goldman](https://hacklab.so/maor-goldman) — Founder (Present)
- [Ofir Simhi](https://hacklab.so/ofir-simhi) — Founder/CTO (Present)
- [Sam Cogan](https://hacklab.so/sam-cogan) — Founder/CEO (Present)